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600 Gallon Upgrade Build
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guserto4
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Check craigslist for those IBC containers- you should be able to find them for $50-100 used (usually to ship olives or whatnot). just be sure to get food grade. I found them easily when I lived in San Diego, and now too in Chicago. Just need to get my BIG system online to actually necessitate buying one, BUT I know where to go when I do.
Newbie Aquarist
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Yea it was getting old carrying buckets to a can that mixes salt water. As for Jenga the blocks are a little big to play with.
Newbie Aquarist
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That's where I bought mine. They both are food grade and rinsed thoroughly.
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Reefing is my middle name
Hey glad to see you RJT. It took some thinking and back reading lots of build threads and I noticed that they pretty much had everything in play before the tank was placed in the final resting spot. Good thing I have a lot of time to do better planning and research.
As for my RO/DI unit, it's only 75-90 gallons per day. I think if I could upgrade to maybe a 150 gpd unit I wouldn't have to wait for water to be made up in case of an emergency.
I started fillin the new tank Thursday night and it so far at this moment had produced about 175 gallons give or take 5-10 gallons for top off water.
Do you think I'll be ok with what I have now or go bigger?
Osteoclast
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Seimens makes good large scale RO and DIs for home use. I have a DI unit that makes up 100s of gallons at a time with 0 TDS. My current unit was changed out this spring after running 13 months. You probably have a local supplier. The tanks are well made and with your volume it is worth checking out.
biecacka
Active member
Hey Wayne, our local club has talked w Russ @ buckeye field supply(sponsor) shoot him a message but if I recall correctly he told us anything over 100gpd starts to really change the rejection rate and lose efficiency.
I can't remember all of what he said but feel free to shoot him a pm or post in their forum. I bought a 75gpd for the reason he stated
Corey
I can't remember all of what he said but feel free to shoot him a pm or post in their forum. I bought a 75gpd for the reason he stated
Corey
RJT
Member
Since these containers are so large you can do a 95-100% water change without the ro/di doing anything because of the rock and sand displacement of the water.
I wouldn't buy a larger ro/di unit and save that money for salt or a hundred other things this hobby requires.
Dustin1300
Reefaholic
Looking good Wayne, been a few weeks since I've poked around and things are progressing. When is it time to move the water from the storage tanks to the actual tank? Guess your tank has to be built first
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Thanks for the heads up. I just found out mine is 100 gpd. I might just add a booster pump on it.
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Thanks Corey. I talked to a couple people and they said with something like that I need to see what the pressure was going into the RO/DI unit and if its less than 50 psi then I will have to get a booster pump to make my unit more efficient.
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Looking good Wayne, been a few weeks since I've poked around and things are progressing. When is it time to move the water from the storage tanks to the actual tank? Guess your tank has to be built first
Goal is before surgery. But the way the VA has been performing lately I might make that goal. I still need to purchase the Sea Swirls, sand, more rock since the aquascape will be sorta, kinda, maybe minimal.
Everything else I need will be purchased during the cycle.
sfsuphysics
Active member
Nice mixing containers, I thought about getting a couple of those myself as they're super cheap if I drive a couple hours to the Sacramento area and get them from farmers looking to part on the cheap... but the dimensions of those... I couldn't fit them through any doorway, and I don't think the wife would appreciate losing more garage space to this hobby
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Nice mixing containers, I thought about getting a couple of those myself as they're super cheap if I drive a couple hours to the Sacramento area and get them from farmers looking to part on the cheap... but the dimensions of those... I couldn't fit them through any doorway, and I don't think the wife would appreciate losing more garage space to this hobby
Well my girl saw them and said "All of your fish stuff is going along that wall and the rest of the garage will be for me."
I couldn't complain with that.
david00061
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When I saw your garage you had all ready taken over the WHOLE garage
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Tha is true. Very true.
